Importance of Health IT Capabilities for Improving Care Coordination Related to Originally Proposed Stage 3 Meaningful Use Objectives
| Capability | Practices Rating Capability as “Very Important,”a % |
|---|---|
| Provide patients with clinical summaries of their visits (N = 346) | 47.7 |
| Use computerized provider order entry for referrals/transition of care orders (N = 346) | 45.4 |
| Provide a Summary of Care record for each site transition or referral (N = 343) | 42.3 |
| Provider receiving referral acknowledges receipt of external information (N = 343) | 32.9 |
| Provider receiving referral provides referral results to the requesting provider (N = 345) | 69.6 |
| Generate lists of patients for multiple specific conditions (N = 346) | 53.8 |
| Present near real-time patient-oriented dashboards for patients with multiple specific conditions (N = 339) | 40.1 |
| Having electronic notification of a visit of the following type: | |
| Patients’ arrival at an emergency department (N = 345) | 42.9 |
| Patients’ discharge from an emergency department (N = 344) | 59.0 |
| Patients’ admission to a hospital (N = 345) | 66.4 |
| Patients’ discharge from a hospital (N = 346) | 77.5 |
| Patients’ death (N = 345) | 73.0 |
IT = information technology (computerized system/electronic health record system).
↵a Rating of 5 on a scale of 1 to 5.